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ATAL
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
The price of democracy in coalition formation
Whenever rational agents form coalitions to execute tasks, doing so via a decentralized negotiation process—while more robust and democratic—may lead to a loss of efficiency ...
Georgios Chalkiadakis, Edith Elkind, Maria Polukar...
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HICSS
2006
IEEE
114views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2006»
15 years 3 months ago
Game Theoretical Analysis of Cooperative Sourcing Scenarios
As an emerging trend in outsourcing, cooperative sourcing is the merging of similar processes of several firms when, for example, several banks merge their payments processing and...
Daniel Beimborn, Hermann-Josef Lamberti, Tim Weitz...
MFCS
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
The Cost of Stability in Network Flow Games
The core of a cooperative game contains all stable distributions of a coalition’s gains among its members. However, some games have an empty core, with every distribution being ...
Ezra Resnick, Yoram Bachrach, Reshef Meir, Jeffrey...
SIGECOM
2003
ACM
124views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2003»
15 years 2 months ago
Coalitional games on graphs: core structure, substitutes and frugality
We study mechanisms that can be modelled as coalitional games with transferable utilities, and apply ideas from mechanism design and game theory to problems arising in a network d...
Rahul Garg, Vijay Kumar, Atri Rudra, Akshat Verma
ATAL
1997
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Multi-Agent Coordination through Coalition Formation
Incorporating coalition formation algorithms into agent systems shall be advantageous due to the consequent increase in the overall quality of task performance. Coalition formatio...
Onn Shehory, Katia P. Sycara, Somesh Jha